 NerdtalkerWorking Hard, Or Hardly Working?Premium,MVM
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Tucson, AZ | reply to Jerm
Re: Are you sure? said by Jerm:said by Nerdtalker:Wardriving is the act of driving around detecting Access Points while creating a database of information about them (SSID, Privacy Yes/No, Speed, Hardware type, Latitude and Longitude for mapping). It is entirely legal. Connecting to an open AP is entirely different, and is illegal Netstumbler sends out beacon requests, and in that sense could be considered "illegal" as you define it. Only a truly passive sniffer like Kismet would be considered "legal". No it wouldn't, WZC also does the same, is it illegal? It doesn't actually associate with the AP, it simply requests a responsesaid by Jerm:But you state a blanket assumption that "connecting to an open AP is illegal"? That was a bit broad, but I would've hoped that it would've gone without saying that connecting to an open AP that you have been authorized to isn't illegal.
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